Software Engineer

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain research and development company, as a Software Engineer. You will write high-quality code for our products, working with cutting-edge research and technology. Collaborate with architects, product managers, and other engineers across multiple time zones. Follow agile practices, work independently, and lead in fostering a culture of observability and monitoring. Contribute to algorithm design, write clean and efficient code, and perform thorough testing. You will also fix bugs, integrate software components, and write documentation. The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills, along with experience in Haskell and Agile development.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• A minimum of 2-3 years development experience (professional or otherwise) in Haskell
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Good understanding of Haskell type system, libraries and GHC runtime & performance
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate across different time zones and levels of experience
• Exceptional ability to communicate ideas in writing. Must be able to implement formal specifications
• Ability to understand project needs, objectives and timescales to feed into planning and setting deadlines for a specific stream
• Clearly articulates new issues, suggests changes to management for implementation
• Write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task
• Write tests (unit tests, property tests) that provide sufficient and non-superfluous efficient code coverage
• Document code and APIs concisely and unambiguously
• Break down tasks into sub-tasks that are completable in a short amount of time and report completion as required by managers
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)

Responsibilities

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across multiple time zones
• Work independently on software development tasks
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains and leads in fostering a culture of observability and monitoring across several teams
• Is a technical and prioritisation leader across a set of related team's domains, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Contribute to the design of algorithms
• Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies previously agreed acceptance criteria and specifications
• Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
• Cover your code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable
• Review the pull requests of your team mates
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
• Implement new features of the stablecoin protocol and additional products
• Design and implement testing strategies for stablecoin and other products
• Synchronize with the technical manager to validate the roadmap
• Identify opportunities for improving productivity and robustness through refactorings / adoption of industry best practices
• Translate specifications into concrete designs, considering architectural design and security aspects
• Pair program with other team members, aiming to collaborate and educate
• Liaise with operations and UI teams to ensure that all aspects of product quality are considered
• Occasionally work on prototypes to try out new features in an experimental setting
• Estimate & prioritize work items and break them down into smaller tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of blockchain and DeFi applications, specifically Cardano
• Experience with finance applications
• Experience using nix

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO